Day 56...right on schedule! :)

[sho220]

I use a cooler incubator also much like yours except I have full water bottles in the bottom to help stabalize the heat when the cooler is opened. I also have a small computer fan wired in the middle of the cooler to move the dead air around. works great I have my first clutch cooking right now due any day. Pastel to spider and mojave got my fingers crossed for bee's also.

Good luck...hope you get some Bees!

[sho220]

What a beautiful bee! Congratulations! For the record, I'm a huge Hatchrite fan, but I have switched to straight Perlite for affordability, and incubate the same way. I mix water until it's the same "feel" with moisture as the Hatchrite. Got a 4 cubic foot bag of the stuff, it will last me for YEARS!

That's a good idea...if I ever get beyond a few clutches a year I'd probably go that route...it's just too easy and cheap right now to order a bag or two and be done with it...

[sho220]

The rest are out...looks like a male pastel...





and finally...a female...Spider...



and...drum roll please...a FEMALE Bee! Woo hoo...





Really happy with how clean the female bee and spider came out...although the last thing I need is another female spider...

[sho220]

That's a great looking Bee Doug!! Hope the next one is a female!

Thanks Jon! Was happy to get a few females out of this clutch.

[zoomin31]

Beautiful snakes. What day were they on when you cut? And what day did they emerge from there egg?

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[Eric Doane]

Great clutch! Congrats on the bee. I could use a female spider

[Jessica Loesch]

Sooo pretty! Congrats!

[gcanibe]

Congrats and good odds on this Clutch...

[wolfy-hound]

Those are some hot bees! And really nice pastels and spiders! Congrats!

Thanks for the pics of your incubator. You should totally post a thread to show the cooler-incubator set up, because you've done a bang-up job on that. Really impressive.

[sho220]

Beautiful snakes. What day were they on when you cut? And what day did they emerge from there egg?

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First one pipped on day 56, two more on day 57 and that's the day I cut the rest. They came out of the eggs over the next couple days...the female spider was the last one out...